Scoble was wrong about Borland. [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog]
... and Scoble is also wrong about many other things. Arguing that statically linked libraries (even in case you don't know, that's what you are referring to, Robert) are a major achievement of Delphi is warped. Of course you need to distribute a set of Delphi runtime components if you write any serious application. Also, Robert seems to be deeply confused about the term "runtime". Hey, it's not a divine structure that will automagically allow 30 languages to run on top of it. That's a design feature of the CLR. A runtime, in general, is just a chunk of code that contains the basic support infrastructure for whatever a compiler produces. Delphi has a runtime library, any C++ compiler has a runtime library, every compiler has a runtime. Sometimes it's statically linked (embedded), sometimes it's external in a DLL or shared library. There are many good things to be said about Delphi (and even more going forward), but just not anything of what Scoble says here.
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